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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 6

Peaches and apricots grown at Alexandra and Roxburgh have arrived at the Dunedin market quickly these season, and these first fruits are well formed and properly ripened.

“I believe we have struck bottom in the depression,” said Mr W. T. Strand, Mayor of Lower Hutt, at a meeting of the Borough Council. “Not,” he said, “that things are showing any improvement, but because the people are meeting the difficulties in a better spirit and realising that this is not a manmade depression, but a world-wide calamity, and when that spirit is abroad an improvement is possible.” Some remarks concerning consciousness of what happens just before and after an accident were made by Mr Justice Frazer in delivering a judgment in the Arbitration Court in Christchurch, on Tuesday afternoon. He said his experience of accident cases wa.s that a person who suffered injury was unable to remember exactly what happened at the time .consciousness was wiped out. Although a person might return to the scene of the accident and sit down quietly to reconstruct the affair, the result was mainly the product of the imagination. The memory of the incidents had disappeared and could not be revived, though the person concerned might honestly believe that he had had a revival of memory.

Bound for Wellington yesterday afternoon to participate in the Christmas air mail service this morning, the Wairarapa Aero Club’s Moth machine made a forced landing on the beach in Palliser Bay, near the Messrs Riddifords’ station. The aeroplane, ZK-ABE, was being operated by Mr J. H. Buckeridge, pilot officer of the Wairarapa club, and It is believed that an engine failure compelled him to land shortly before 5 p.m. The machine was slightly damaged under.the difficult landing conditions on a plateau in the Oiongorongo vallev. The pilot was compelled to take this route owing to “thick weather. Mr Buckendge reached Wellington in the evening, and arrangements were made to handle the air mail according to schedule. Some time ago Mr H. McGregor, of Manawatu Heads, was impressed with the possibility of canning and exporting eels, and carried out a series of experiments at the beach. On October 12 with Mr H. McDonald, of Levin, Mr McGregor despatched a consignment of canned eels as samples of the New Zealand product to Singapore tor distribution nil over the East. Yesterday Mr McGregor received a letter from the distributing agency at Singapore to the effect that the eels had been favourably received in China and there was a 'good prospect of developing a trade in that connection. The agency suggested that in future the fish be done up in one pound tins instead of two pound and placed an order with Mr McGregor for a consignment.— Foxton correspondent. Invitation holdors are reminded of the dance' to be held in the P.D.C. ballroom on Monday next (Boxing Night) by the S.P.C.A. The subscription will be single 4s, double 7s 6d.

In return for assistance given to the families of unemployed fishermen at the Chatham Islands from the mainland, the Islands fishermen have decided to assist unemployed in Christchurch by sending back a quantity of fish. Suffering from the effects of ptomaine poisoning Mr and Mrs F. King (Carrington Road) were admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital on Wednesday. Both were reported later to he progressing satisfactorily. “The blackbird is responsible for an enormous amount of damage in the country,’’ said Mr B. T. Booker at a meeting of the Manukau County Council. He said that, on a large area growing strawberry plants this season, insufficient berries had been gathered to provide a meal, owing to the depredations of blackbirds.

In presenting dux medals at the West Lyttelton School, Mr C. H. Roud, master pf the Unanimity Masonic Lodge, No. 3, stated that the medals had been presented to the school by the lodge for the past 54 years. It was at the instance of the late Rev. E. Eliot Chambers that the gift originally was made. The dust nuisance on farms next the Hamilton-Ngaruawaliia section of the main road is so bad that settlers cutting their hay can go only once round their paddocks with mowing machines before having the knives resharpened, stated a member of the Waipa County Council nt a meeting of the council this week. “The dust is worse than a fog,” remarked another membqr. Every year as Christmas comes round, the lighthouse tender Matai visits the Northern lighthouses with Christmas stores. This year, as in the past, she took with her parcels of toys, scrapbooks and sweets for the children of the lighthouse-keepers, who have to live a life cut off from the outer world, and who would thus miss the pleasures of Christmas. These toys, sweets, etc., are made by the members of the girls’ branch of the Auckland Navy League, and there is a parcel for each family with gifts for each child, so that they will feel that Father Christmas has been able to find time to visit their lighthouse.